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OK so it looks like maybe the events industry is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Business is starting to pick up, albeit slowly.
The mistaken perception that corporate events are solely the realm of tax-money wasting, Wall Street fat cats has been devastating. The accompanying blow leveled by the [...]
Adrian Segar is a former elementary particle physicist who, dissatisfied with traditional conferences, created the first peer conference in 1992, and has been refining it ever since. His book, Conferences that Work, is a one-stop resource of practical information and tools to help plan and facilitate a safe and supportive attendee-driven peer conference.
I was fortunate [...]
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1 – 16 fun things to do at a tradeshow
2 – Snow cancels ASAE Tech Conference but new instant event emerges
3 – Bottomline: Hybrid meetings and events deliver more value
4 – 16 criteria for choosing your conference backchannel
5 – Introducing the Tradeshow Insight App
6 – Why is social [...]
Event Camp, or #EC10, took place Feb. 6 and was the first unconference for events industry professionals. It was organized by members of eventprofs, the group of events industry professionals that meets on Twitter twice a week for chats, and also posts helpful events industry information under the #eventprofs hashtag.
After months of tweeting [...]
Hybrid events are where the new internet technologies meet with audio visual. So naturally, I was very interested in this component of Event Camp,#EC10, the event industry’s first unconference focusing on social media for events and originating from members of the Twitter group #eventprofs. I’d read a lot about hybrid events, but hadn’t experienced one [...]
(l to r, Traci Browne, me, Kim Geralds, Christina Stallings, Mike McCurry)
Have you ever just HAD to be somewhere? Maybe it was your best friend’s wedding or your child’s little league playoffs but it wasn’t an obligation. You wanted to be there because of the other people that would be there. You wanted [...]
